Girl Who Named Pluto, At 11, Dies At 90 (Wednesday 13th of May 2009 05:15:06 PM)
Notthepainter notes the passing of the woman who, as an 11-year-old girl, named Pluto. "Frozen
and lonely, Planet X circled the far reaches of the solar system awaiting strike and a name. It
got one thanks to an 11-year-old British girl named Venetia ...
(more)MIKE MYERS AND PARIS HILTON LOSERS AT RAZZIES (New York Post) (Sunday 22nd of February 2009 02:22:33 AM)
Mike Myers and Paris Hilton were the big losers tonight at the Razzies, the Oscar spoof paying
tribute to Hollywood's most dubious achievements of 2008. Myers was named Worst Actor for the
flop comedy "The Love Guru," which was also named Worst...
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(more)Zip, Dick and Pea (Monday 01st of December 2008 12:00:00 AM)
There were three boys in a classroom: one named Zip, one named Dick, and one named Pea. Their
teacher leaves the room for a moment, so Zip gets on top of the cupboard, Dick goes inside the
cupboard, and Pee jumps around outside.The teacher returns ...
(more)Naming Twins (Tuesday 23rd of December 2008 12:45:01 PM)
A woman had twins, and gave them up for espousal at birth. One of the twins went to a family in
Egypt, and was named "Amal." The other twin went to a family in Spain, and they named him
"Juan."
Years later, Juan sent a picture ...
(more)RHN Bind Update Brings Down RHEL Named (Friday 18th of July 2008 07:35:35 PM)
Alexs writes "Red Hat's allergy to update bind through RHN, patching the DNS hole, made a fatal
error which will revert all name servers to caching only servers. This meant that anyone
running their own DNS service speedily lost all of their DNS records ...
(more)Study Confirms ISPs Meddle With Web Traffic (Friday 18th of April 2008 03:45:04 PM)
Last July, a inquest team from the drilling mash unit of law released an online tool to analyze
whether web pages were being altered during the transit from web server to user. On Wednesday,
the team released a paper at the Usenix seminar analyzing the ...
(more)Ready for a CyberWalk? (Saturday 12th of April 2008 08:15:10 AM)
Roland Piquepaille writes "Even with recent improvements in virtual reality technology, it's
still almost impossible to physically walk through virtual environments. Now, provencal
researchers have started a project named CyberWalk and they'll demonstrate ...
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